Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have taken steps to declare as government property the plot of land in the garrison town of Abbottabad where al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden spent his final years before he was killed by American commandos. The government of the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province has published notices in newspapers asking for objections […]

Islamabad: Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari has commuted the death sentence for Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh. He is likely to be allowed to return to Punjab soon. He has spent 21 years on death row and is currently in a prison in Lahore. This May, he filed his fifth petition for clemency. India’s Minister for […]

New Delhi: Even as the Delhi Police continue to interrogate Syed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal, arrested in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, it has come to light that the LeT terrorist had stayed at the Mumbai residence of a Maharashtra minister way back in 2009. When Jundal had stayed at her government accommodation […]

New Delhi: It has been a day since the news of Abu Jundal’s arrest came to light. As security agencies interrogate him and seek more details about the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, it is being claimed that Abu Jundal alias Sayeed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Hamza (the man has at least 10 aliases) might prove […]

New Delhi: Reaching out to his new counterpart in Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday congratulated Raja Pervez Ashraf and expressed confidence that the two countries will continue to make progress on bilateral issues and build good neighbourly relations during his tenure. “I would like to extend to you my heartiest congratulations on your […]